Books - "history"
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Books on Egypt and Chaldaea Volumes 9 - 17 (IX - XVII): A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII BC30
Eight volume set with large coloured folding map at rear of vol 1 (Vol IX)
Eight-volume set, octavo, browny-orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board & black decorative rule to front board, xxiv + 222 + large folding map (vol.1), xvi + 207pp (vol.2), xvi + 219pp (vol.3), xvi + 241pp (vol.4), xvi + 219pp (vol.5), xxxiv + 230pp (vol.6), xvi + 251pp (vol.7), xvi + 321pp (vol.8), all vols illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, several fading spots to spines, tanning to eps, v occasional page corners creased, moderate wear to spine of vol 1, light fraying and moderate soiling)
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench et al 1902
KEYWORDS: classics ancient history Egypt Chaldaea ancient Egyptian history EA Wallis Budge
Sweet Thunder
softcover rectangle saddle-stapled octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Lodestar Press
KEYWORDS: specials trains steam travel railway history richard croker history photography
Steel Roads of Australia
Quarto, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus prelims, 145pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light foxing to inside)
PUBLISHER: IPL Books 1991
KEYWORDS: Australia transport railways trains steam engines history Colin Taylor Geoffrey Churchman pictorial photographic history
Why I Survived the A-Bomb
hardcover super octavo (fine) in d/w (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Institute for Historical Review 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Akira Kohchi atom bomb chemica warfare history hiroshima history memoir
A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo 1755-1870
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Texas A&M University Press 1983
KEYWORDS: specials Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa USA Laredo Texas Mexican American Mexico history economics social history
The First Great Civilizations
paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pelican 1977
KEYWORDS: specials history mesopotamia indus valley egypt jacquetta hawkes history
The Lyalldale Waltz: A Light-hearted Look at Rural Life about South Canterbury over the past Seventy Years
Lacks fep, inscribed, signed & dated by author, octavo, maroon boadrs with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, iv + 219pp, illus, VG (some fading to spine extrems, owner's name & address twice to half title verso, some tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (heavy staining, 2cm tatty portion of loss to upper spine extrem, tatty tears with loss to lower spine, creasing to all edges, nicks to all corners)
PUBLISHER: Isaac Thompson 1975
KEYWORDS: Isaac M Thompson New Zealand Canterbury Kopje Pareora Estate history farming local history
Ned Kelly: Man and Myth
One section celotaped into book, octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Cassell Australia 1980
KEYWORDS: specials colin cave ned kelly australia history criminal history
Narrative of a Residence in Various Parts of New Zealand. Together with a Description of the Present State of the Company's Settlements
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Charles Heaphy New Zealand artisit travel autobiography memoir natural history politics history
The Epic of Flight: The Carrier War
Quarto hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Time Life Books 1983
KEYWORDS: specials Clark G Reynolds Time-Life books military history Second World War Two naval airforce history
Mao Zedong's Art of War
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Hai Feng 1993
KEYWORDS: specials liu jikun china history miltary war history
The South of the North: Manawatu and Its Neighbours
softcover quarto, (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Massey University 2000
KEYWORDS: specials B G R Saunders new zealand local history manawatu pictorial history
Bragge's Wellington and the Wairarapa
hardcover oblong quarto (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Millwood 1974
KEYWORDS: specials William Main new zealand illus history wellington wairarapa pictorial history photography
The Scallop: Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind
Quarto hardcover (VG) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Shell Transport and Trading 1957
KEYWORDS: specials Ian Cox art history science natural history
Continental Circus, 1949 - 2000
Text in English German and French, folio, illus black heavy card boards, 588pp, illus, VG+ (owner's address abel to f.e.p., v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Chronosports S.A. 2001
KEYWORDS: Maurice Bula Jean-Claude Schertenleib motorbikes motorcycle racing history statistics history Text in English French German
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in all TImes and Countries, especially in England and in France, in Two Volumes
Two-volume set, scarce, imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines & blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, coated eps, xi + 436pp (vol.1), 444pp (vol.2), VG- (6cm portion of vol 2 lower spine missing, rear board vol.1 detached, heavy bruising & fraying to spine extrems & boards corners, browning to spines, staining to boards, bookseller's labels to front pastedowns, owner's ex libris labels to frotn pastedowns, heavy browning to page edges, hinges cracked, pencil drawing to last page vol.1, sporadic light foxing, slight damage to v. occasional page edges)
PUBLISHER: Tinsely Brother 1870
KEYWORDS: Andrew Steinmetz gambling history gaming tables history ancient Rome Egypt Europe lotteries entertainment
Australia & New Zealand Warships 1914-1945
Square quarto hardcover (VG) (lacks d/w) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Australia Pty.1983
KEYWORDS: specials Ross Gillett military history warships WW1 WW2 battleships naval history
Angels & Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Collections
Inscribed & signed by author, quarto, illus heavy card boards, ribbon bookmark, black eps, 400pp, illus, fine
PUBLISHER: Godwit / Random House 2010
KEYWORDS: Mary Kisler New Zealand European art history public gallery collections history signed
Easter Island Studies: Contributions to the History of Rapanui in Memory of William T Mulloy
Oxbow Monograph 32
Folio, illus light card covers with white lettering to black spine, frontispiece, xiii + 247pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Oxbow Books 1993
KEYWORDS: Easter Island Rapanui history archaeology anthropology natural history Rapanui language arts crafts academic papers articles
Poyntzfield: The McKenzies of Lower Rangitikei
Imperial octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece map, iii + 256pp, illus, VG (light foxing & tanning to page edges, owner's name & address in ink to fep) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine & sides, light chaffing & creasing to edges & flap folds, some tanning to inside)
PUBLISHER: RJ Knight 1975
KEYWORDS: Rob Knight New Zealand history Poyntzfield McKenzie family history Rangitikei